Christmas store window design

I created this "Rudolph and the Island of Misfit Toys," theme window for my friend Mary Kathryn's store, Clash, in Dayton. The store carries "offbeat" clothing and art items, hence highlighting those items as the "misfit toys" of the island. 

Tiki show - Dayton ohio

 

4 days and a few hours to go until the Tiki show at Clash!

Friday March 1st at 6:00PM. Clash Consignments in the Oregon District in Dayton

Paintings, Mugs, Sculptures and rockabilly surf music for 4 solid hours or more.

 

Tiki Lantern Build -March tiki show at Clash

I started with a dumpy little sketch of a tiki, based on some New Guinea carvings.

I roll out a large slab of clay and wrap it around my form for my basic shape. (there are 2 coffee cans stacked and taped together then wrapped in newspaper inside the giant tampon shape)

I painfully slide it off the form...for like, 15 minutes. Then I cut out my basic lantern parts, like, the back so you can put a candle in...and cut out basic eye and mouth holes. (watch it collapse when I fire it...)

Then add shapes and "tattoo" elements...Still in process though!

And finished sculpt.

March Tiki show at Clash Consignments - Dayton

 

Sheet of matchbook covers I'm producing for the tiki show, March 2013, at Clash Consignments here in Dayton. (the FRAGILE stickers where to use up the extra space on the sticker sheet. I can use those for shipping!)

I thought matchbooks are a cool throw back to the original "Tiki movement" when people smoked like in the Mad Men show. (Speaking of Mad Men, there are a few scenes where the characters are sipping cocktails in tiki mugs!) I figure, I burn a lot of candles...and I'm sure people still smoke. They'd be a nifty little keepsake, trinket-y doodad! :)

I was going to have the matchbooks printed and buy them in bulk. (which would have been cheaper)
But I really didn't think I needed a thousand for 140 bucks...so I bought 200 plain white one on Amazon.com for less than 20 bucks. I'll print a sticker sheet off my laser printer and attach it to the outside of the matchbook. That way I can have many different styles.